Markets and Health Care: A Comparative Analysis

The reforms introduced by the NHS over the past few years have been designed to achieve greater efficiency by introducing the disciplines of the market. Other countries in both the developing world and the developed world have been watching the British experiment with interest and increasingly adopting similar approaches to try and resolve their own health care problems. This book surveys the very similar range of pressures that are forcing governments around the world to reform their health systems and then, in a series of specially commissioned country studies, provides case studies of a range of national solutions.